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Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

2026-05-18 · Ars Technica

A guy tried to use AI to craft a revenge lawsuit against Facebook users who called him a bad date, but his case crashed and burned when the court discovered fake citations generated by AI. Nothing says 'I'm definitely not a bad date' like submitting hallucinated legal references to a judge. The AI-fabricated citations got his case tossed, proving once again that ChatGPT makes a terrible lawyer.

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